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CREDIBLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being believable or trustworthy
Synonyms:
believability; credibility; credibleness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("credibleness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
believable; credible (capable of being believed)
incredible; unbelievable (beyond belief or understanding)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credibleness"):
authenticity; genuineness; legitimacy (undisputed credibility)
cogency; rigor; rigour; validity (the quality of being valid and rigorous)
plausibility; plausibleness (apparent validity)
cred; street cred; street credibility (credibility among young fashionable urban individuals)
Derivation:
credible (appearing to merit belief or acceptance)
credible (capable of being believed)
credible ((a common but incorrect usage where 'credulous' would be appropriate) credulous)
